What if Lincoln Made a Performance Sedan to Take On the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing?

With Ford's caller patent filings suggesting an upcoming, four-door Mustang sedan is connected the horizon, possibly a luxurious Lincoln variant isn't wholly retired of the question.

Lincoln has agelong been a awesome of occurrence and elegance successful America, but contempt gathering its favourable estimation connected large, pompous, and graceful luxury sedans and idiosyncratic luxury coupes, the marque's modern lineup consists exclusively of crossovers and SUVs. Lincoln's last-ever accepted car, the Continental, was discontinued successful 2020, and determination has been nary authoritative announcement of different sedan from Lincoln since. Although it's surely logical for Lincoln to prosecute crossover and SUV buyers, which are undoubtedly the automotive industry's astir lucrative segments astatine the moment, it's inactive incredibly important for brands to clasp products wrong their portfolio that hint backmost to the company's roots, honouring marque legacy, and frankincense maintaining the archetypal ethos of the marque that gets radical excited to caput down to their section showrooms. Mitsubishi, for example, is simply a marque that made this fatal mistake, and its income figures and taste relevance person suffered arsenic a result. Contrast that with Lexus, which inactive cashes successful connected lucrative crossovers and SUVs, but keeps their marque applicable with breathtaking products that entreaty to the interior children successful each of us, specified arsenic the LC500 and the IS 350 F-Sport sedan.

An all-new, four-door sedan from the Ford Motor Company isn't retired of the question, either. As our precise ain Amos Kwon precocious reported, the marque's latest patent filings suggest that a four-door sedan variant of the iconic Ford Mustang could beryllium connected its way. As income figures for the accepted Mustang coupe and convertible variants person slipped successful caller years, galore experts person cited the wide public's displacement towards much applicable sports cars that harvester sporting thrills with mundane practicality. A four-door sedan variant of the legendary Mustang pony car could capable that void successful Ford's lineup perfectly, but going adjacent further, its underpinnings could service arsenic a cleanable basal for a much luxurious, Lincoln-branded high-performance sedan.

Using generative text-to-image artificial quality and Adobe Photoshop, we instrumentality an imagined look astatine what a revived, true-to-its-roots Lincoln LS V8 could look like, incorporating existent Lincoln plan elements and styling cues, and imagining what presently existing powertrains it could optimize. These images are for speculation purposes lone and successful nary mode picture immoderate existent Ford oregon Lincoln products.

As a spiritual successor to the Lincoln LS, an all-new Lincoln midsize sedan could beryllium aimed straight astatine the Cadillac CT5-V

In the early-2000s, Lincoln offered the LS successful its showrooms–a mid-size, rear-wheel thrust luxury sedan that shared its level with the Jaguar S-Type and competed against the Cadillac Catera, the first-generation Cadillac CTS, the Lexus GS, and, albeit briefly, the Chrysler 300. Offered with the buyer's prime of a V6 oregon V8 engine, the Lincoln LS had astir a cleanable 50/50 front-rear value distribution, resulting successful admirable driving dynamics and offered a susceptible blend of luxury and performance. Despite the popularity of Cadillac's CTS and Chrysler's 300, Lincoln ne'er followed up the LS with a existent replacement, and alternatively offered the Ford Fusion-based Lincoln MKZ, which gave up plentifulness of the sedan's show entreaty and targeted a lower-budget demographic–a questionable determination for a self-proclaimed "luxury" brand. As astir of Lincoln's lineup followed suit, morphing its full portfolio (other than the Navigator) into Ford-based, front-wheel thrust sedans and crossovers, Lincoln's "luxury" entreaty dwindled, and the marque has spent its much caller years attempting to crook things around.

Fast guardant to 2025, and Lincoln's existent portfolio reflects a genuinely awesome effort to reclaim the brand's erstwhile glory arsenic a genuine luxury automotive brand. Despite consisting wholly of crossovers and SUVs, Lincoln's existent lineup has travel an incredibly agelong mode successful the past 5 years acknowledgment to its talented plan department, refined mechanical engineering, and innovative, up-to-date exertion specified arsenic Lincoln's BlueCruise thrust assistance system. What amended mode to observe the brand's caller occurrence and proudly works the Lincoln emblem successful the modern automotive scenery than with an exciting, heart-pumping show sedan that shares its underpinnings with a four-door Ford Mustang and has its sights aimed straight astatine the beloved Cadillac CT5-V, frankincense exclaiming the brand's competitory intentions to the world?

A divers assortment of powertrains could find their mode nether the hood, including hybrid and V8 engines

A rear-wheel drive, mid-size Lincoln sedan could supply an fantabulous blueprint for immoderate superior performance, but it's besides ripe for opportunities to integrate immoderate of Ford and Lincoln's creaseless and businesslike EcoBoost powertrains arsenic well. In its astir basal form, the hypothetical, revived Lincoln LS could utilize Ford's 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder, which serves up a notable helping of 300 horsepower and 310 lb-ft of torque. Mated to a ten-speed automatic transmission and rear- oregon all-wheel drive, the basal variant of Lincoln's sedan would brilliantly blend comfort, efficiency, and performance, frankincense maintaining the archetypal doctrine of the early-2000s Lincoln LS. If buyers are aft adjacent much powerfulness without sacrificing comfortableness and convenience, the 400-horsepower, twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 recovered successful the existent Lincoln Aviator could service arsenic a fitting optional upgrade.

Using the Aviator's disposable powertrains besides opens up the anticipation of utilizing the Aviator Grand Touring's plug-in hybrid tech, paired with the twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6, to marque a combined full of 494 horsepower and 630 lb-ft of torque–combining earnestly susceptible show figures with creaseless powerfulness output and admirable substance efficiency. Going a measurement further, Lincoln could instrumentality connected the widely-lauded Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing with a high-performance, V8-powered variant. Packing the supercharged, 5.2-liter V8 recovered nether the hood of the previous-generation Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, the hypothetical Lincoln LS V8 revival could marque up to 760 horsepower and 625 lb-ft of torque. Mated with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, oregon possibly an optional six-speed manual since we're being ambitious, and sending powerfulness to the rear wheels, this variant could springiness the Cadillac Blackwing a superior tally for its wealth and adhd immoderate chaotic show pedigree to Lincoln's modern portfolio.

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Final thoughts

Although this is conscionable immoderate chaotic day-dreamy proposal of a imaginable offshoot of Ford's not-yet-officially-confirmed four-door Mustang variant, we can't assistance but anticipation that if Ford is genuinely giving the thought of a rear-wheel thrust show sedan immoderate superior thought, that possibly Lincoln volition get a accidental to utilize the level for a exemplary wrong their precise ain lineup, allowing the luxury marque to payment from what would beryllium their archetypal rear-wheel thrust based sedan since the Town Car, which hasn't been astir since 2011, and adjacent past it was fundamentally a forty-year-old vehicle. We emotion Lincoln present astatine Autoblog and deliberation they've travel a agelong mode successful their caller years, and we genuinely judge that their updated plan connection has made for immoderate of the best-looking Lincoln models we've seen successful a precise agelong time. Such fantastic styling would construe incredibly good onto a sedan body, oregon possibly adjacent a coupe oregon cabriolet successful an alternate beingness wherever buyers inactive appreciated amusive things, but for the clip being we'll gladly settee for Lincoln's elegant existent offerings.